Match Me (by Jay)




I'm including a few Christmas ideas on this blog...it's not that far away now!

Anyway, I made the image in AI.  I made background frame in AI as well. It's up to you if you decide to make your own, or borrow from elsewhere. 
This is the prompt I made for my background frame.

You can download mine HERE

A richly detailed square winter illustration with a symmetrical vintage baroque silver frame. The frame is ornate and embossed, featuring elegant silver scroll work, filigree, pearls, decorative crests, icy ornamental details, snowflakes, frosted evergreen branches, red and blue winter berries, pine cones, white roses, and hanging icicles.Inside the frame is a peaceful snowy evergreen forest rendered in a beautiful hand-painted watercolor style. A winding snow-covered path leads into the distant forest, with soft warm winter sunlight glowing through the trees, atmospheric mist, snow-covered fir trees, frosted shrubs, rocks, footprints in the snow, and delicate winter vegetation. Two small robin-like birds with warm orange-red breasts perch on snowy branches, one on the left and one on the right.



I put the tag together in PSP then added my watermark.
Then I copied and pasted as a new animation into animation shop.

My snow had 25 layers, so I needed to duplicate my image by 24 so it was 25 layers as well.

Back to the snow, go to edit, select all, then select copy.
Go to your creation and again, edit/select all, then clicking onto frame 1, edit/paste into selected frame.

This will paste all the layers into the proper place.
Check your animation by going to View/Animation.

Lastly, I put the Christmas lights on.
I didn't want the snow to be on top of them.  
Again, I duplicated the lights until I had 25, then did the copy and paste thing again.

I think it looks good.
Can you do something similar.  It doesn't need to be exactly, just similar theme and ideas.
To match me, you must include a snowy area, Santa, snow and lights.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.